Convened by UNESCO, the UNESCO-MONDIACULT 2025 World Conference will be hosted from 29 September to 1 October 2025 in Barcelona.
Organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi, the 5th edition of Culture Summit Abu Dhabi returns to Manarat Al Saadiyat from 23 - 25 October 2022.
Convened by UNESCO, the UNESCO-MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference will be hosted from 28 to 30 September 2022 by the Government of Mexico.
The sixth Edinburgh International Culture Summit will take place at the Scottish Parliament between 26 – 28 August 2022 on the theme "Culture and a Sustainable Future".
Organised by the Qatar Foundation, the WISE 2021 Summit will take place in Doha, Qatar around the theme "Generation Unmute: Reclaiming our Future Through Education".
Together with European Cultural Foundation, Europa Nostra, also in its capacity as coordinator of the European Heritage Alliance, Bozar - the Centre for Fine Arts and in partnership with the Rebuilding Europe with Culture Campaign, Culture Action Europe will hold the third edition of the Annual Policy Conversation, 'A Cultural Deal for Europe', on 18 November 2021 from 15:00 - 18:00 CET in a hybrid format at Bozar, Brussels and online.
Hosted by the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, the University of Borås, and the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, the 10th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research (NCCPR) will be held in Borås, Sweden 10-11 November 2021 on "The Nordic Cultural Model – revisited, rejected, reimagined".
The Interpret Europe Conference will take place online from 1-4 October 2021 on the theme "Recreating tourism through heritage interpretation".
Communicating the Arts Lausanne will gather 250 communication and engagement experts working in museums and heritage, the visual and performing arts on the theme "The Art of Placemaking".
The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy 2021 will focus on "The Widespread Growing Global Conflicts Era: from Superpowers Conflicts, International Trade-Wars, Climate Catastrophes, Growing Poverty & Migration, to Massive Abuse of Media and Social Networks through Fake News and Public Shaming".
Part of Salzburg Global’s Designs on the Future initiative, "How Will Diversity Make A Difference?" will take place on 24 June 2021 from 17:30 - 19:00 CET.
Organised by Brunel University London, the Museum of London, and UCL Urban Laboratory, "Museums, Cities, Cultural Power" is a free two-day online symposium that examines the role of museums in the contemporary city and analyses the dynamics of selected museum development projects in London, the UK and other cities around the world such as Cape Town, Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro and Rotterdam.
Created by Trans Europe Halles (TEH), The European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC), and a TEH-member Maltfabrikken, Culture Impact Now is a unique opportunity to meet peers and policymakers from all across Europe, to share knowledge and debate on the impact of arts and culture on people’s lives, communities, cities and societies.
The Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN) will hold a virtual half-day on 2 June 2021 (sessions held in CEST) of engaging discussion and insight, where we explore this moment for cultural districts. What are the new realities and challenges for cultural districts and their constituents?
As part of the global campaign launched by the World Health Organization to galvanise the arts in countering the mental health crisis of isolation, anxiety, and bereavement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Healing Arts London will feature a week of virtual talks and events from 22-26 March 2021 (sessions in GMT).
The 9th World Cities Culture Summit will take place in Milan in 2021 and will bring together leading policy makers, researchers, managers, and practitioners from the arts and culture sector from around the world.
The European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network Sociology of the Arts will hold its 11th midterm conference virtually (streamed from Helsinki) on "The social effects of art: activism, advocacy and beyond".
Culture Summit is a cross-functional, cross-industry conference that brings together founders, thought leaders, and culture champions from all over the world to share insights and best practices on building and transforming culture in the workplace.
The International Conference on Cultural Tourism and Museum Management aims to bring together leading academic scientists, and researchers on all aspects of Cultural Tourism and Museum Management.
The 7th International NDPC Cultural Forum and b.creative join forces for an international event focusing on the transversal nature of the cultural and creative entrepreneurship and its capacity to foster social and economic change.
Organised by the School of Architecture, Art & Design at the American University in Dubai, the interdisciplinary research organisation AMPS, its academic journal Architecture_MPS, and the events and publication group PARADE, "Rapid Cities - Responsive Architectures" is a conference examining design, planning, and construction in the modern world.
Organised by Creative England and Creative Industries Federation, Creative Coalition 2020 is a three-day online festival with the aim of bringing the creative industries together to innovative and redefine our future.
The 8th biannual European-Mediterranean (EuroMed 2020) conference on Digital Cultural Heritage will be held digitally and brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning cultural heritage today.
Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge cities (ROCK) will host an Open Knowledge Week from 27-30 October 2020 (CEST), a virtual journey and interactive online experience.
Organized by the Directorate General of Media and Cultural Industries (DGMIC), in collaboration with the General Secretariat (SG) and the Directorates General of the Ministry of Culture, the 6th Entrepreneurship in Culture Forum will take place on the Internet from 19 to 23 October 2020
Sponsored by MuseumInsider, the Department for International Trade (UK), Museums + Heritage Advisor, and mydigitalevent, Connecting Culture is a digital two-day conference bringing together museum and heritage professionals from around the world, in an effort to rebuild and respond to the COVID-19 crisis.
The University of Hertfordshire will be hosting the Festival of Ideas Reimagined on the 28th and 29th June for the Hertfordshire Year of Culture 2020, focusing on two major strands: "art and culture sustaining us through periods of crisis" and "thoughts on a post-pandemic future".
Adeste+ will hold an online conference over 5 episodes between June to September 2020 (session times in Central European Summer Time) on "Change Within Change", gathering cultural operators, artists, practitioners, activists, scholars, researchers, policy makers and funders, directors and decision-makers working in the field of arts and culture.
CUMEDIAE and Trans Europe Halles, partners of the Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies (DISCE) Consortium, will be hosting the first of two webinars on the 28th May from 14:00-15:00 (Central European Summer Time) on the current and immediate state of creative economies in the context of COVID-19 crisis.
OECD in collaboration with Cultura Italiae will be hosting a webinar on "Culture as a developmental driver for Italy in the post-COVID scenario" on the 15th May, 15:00-18:30 (Central European Summer Time).
UNESCO will hold the second ResiliArt debate in partnership with the International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity on the 14th May, 14:00-16:00 (Central European Summer Time). This debate will be structured around four key themes: the constraints faced by cultural professionals, creators and artists in resuming their activities and the measures put in place to support them; the adoption of measures and policies to support and promote the diversity of cultural expressions, particularly in the digital environment; new international relations and modalities of cultural cooperation; and the sustainability of new forms of creation and of the expression of cultural diversity.
